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Install Anti-Spam Firewall for any server in 30 minutes • Designed for Linux and Windows email system administrators, Scrollout F1 is a free anti-spam and anti-virus email firewall (gateway) for multiple domains and email servers, with DLP for outgoing messages filtering Excel, Word, PDF and image files (archived or hidden). This document describes how to install Scrollout F1 from scratch, on a fresh Ubuntu Server or Debian. The installation is easy. Even if you are a newbie in Linux there is not much room for errors. Estimated time: 30 minutes.Includes a video tutorial as an alternative to this article.

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Good stuff but unfortunately this project mess around with /etc/resolv.conf which in Ubuntu 12.04 (at least) is a soflink poiting elsewhere. This file is generated and overwriten by resolvconf. It also rewrite /etc/network/interfaces. Good or bad??

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1. I will escalate this /etc/resolv.conf issue and release an update asap. (this occurred after 10.04 or 8.04 - not sure).
I'm considering native Debian as an alternative for the OS, instead of Ubuntu.

2. /etc/network/interfaces file stores part of the connection settings (ip, mask, gateway). The file must be changed (rewritten) when the network is reconfigured.

Thank you.
Marius.

By: Anonymous

The use of resolvconf started in 12.04. It has thrown off a bunch of folks now that adding DNS nameserver info into the /etc/network/interfaces is needed.

Resolvconf was definitely NOT part of 10.04. Back then, we just edited the /etc/resolve.conf manually ... you know like we have since 1990. We don't use non-LTS releases, so I can't talk about 11.10 and resolveconf.

By: Marius Gologan

After testing "resolvconf" cmd line I decided to remove resolvconf package during installation and update. It works one way (interfaces writes date in resolv.conf) and is not clear to me how it handles one record (domain) out of three (nameserver, search and domain).

I also noticed that inputs any record and value in resolv.conf:

echo "funny-dns 192.168.he.he" | resolvconf -a eth0

Regards,

Marius.

By: Andreas

Is there a simple way of uninstalling this? Seemed like a very non-debian package, and I want it gone.

By: Lionel

I had the same problem.

To solve it, I reserved IP address in my DHCP server and activated the automatic network configuration in ScrolloutF1.

Regards,

By: Anonymous

Using that web page you can configure scrollout as SMTP inbound gateway:
Input a hostname: hostexample.
Input your domain(s): mydomain.com
input your real email server that stores the emails for mydomain.com: [192.168.1.2]
make sure you have an MX record in the DNS like: hostexample.mydomain.com pointing to the Debian server where scrollout is installed.

A rough diagram:
Internet ---> DNS MX pointing to ---> Scrollout F1 filtering (Debian) ---> Real email server

By: Anonymous

Has anyone installed it in a Debian system?

I've tried three attempts and three failures. I always end with a mesh of web page.

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Starting with version 2012-07-05, try:

/var/www/bin/uninstall.sh

By: Anonymous

it worked perfectly under Debian wheezy for me. But on my notebook I don't need it so I tried to uninstall all witch is really stupid. It would be nice to have a script for it.

By: Anil Kumar

Very good email firewall. I have installed it in Ubuntu 12.04. Presently testing working fine. Not getting logout option in web interface.

Thanks and Regards